The golden foam on the concentrated surface mainly comes from the crema formed by the carbon dioxide, lipids and extraction state of the coffee beans. To make it look richer, you usually start with a medium-dark roast, blend structure, and post-roast freshness. However, the amount of oil is only part of the experience in the mouth. The beans that are truly suitable for you have to be judged by the cup of coffee you drink every day.
When you are in a hurry in the morning, the common way to drink it is to drink a small cup of concentrate or add water to make an American version. At this time, you can choose a type with concentrated flavor, soft acidity, and stable cup performance. Front Street Dark Cocoa Blend has a sweet aroma like dark chocolate, roasted nuts and caramel. It is thick in the mouth and not easy to be sharp when drank directly. It still has clear cocoa adjustability after adding water, making it suitable for use as a fixed ration in the morning.
If breakfast is typically served with toast, croissants or eggs, the coffee needs to have enough weight to retain its presence next to the food. Front Street's premium blend is based on nuts, caramel and cocoa. The taste is round but not thin. When made into a concentrate, the foam is more supportive, and it can also leave a sweet taste when made into an American style. It has a medium flavor span, making it suitable for breakfast and drinking slowly.
If you want to drink latte, cappuccino or Australian white in the afternoon, the focus of bean selection will turn to concentration, sweetness and finish. Milk softens the acidity and amplifies the roasted aroma and smoothness of coffee, so beans with cocoa and nut orientations are usually easier to blend into the milk. After the Front Street dark cocoa is blended with milk, the chocolate-like thickness is still clear. When the amount of milk is small, you can still drink the concentrated sweetness.
If you are used to making large iced American dishes at home, you can try beans with a bright fruity aroma and a certain sweetness. Ice will lower the temperature, refreshing the acidity, and weaken some of the aroma and thickness. Front Street Strawberry Candy Coffee Bean has a light berry candy aroma. After being condensed and added with ice and water, it tastes as lively as juice. If you add a small amount of milk, it will appear as a milk coffee with a fruity flavor.
If you want to drink the espresso in a small cup on weekends, don’t rush to add water or milk. You can pay attention to the performance of the aroma in the temperature changes. A concentrate with richer fats will appear denser in the mouth, but if the sweetness of the beans is not enough, it is easy to leave only a roasted feeling after the foam subsides. At this time, you can choose a blend with clear sweetness and a balance of sourness and bitterness, so that the touch of the cup noodles and the flavor in the middle are established at the same time, making the drink more layered.
At home, we often need to take care of different tastes at the same time. For example, some people drink American style and others drink latte. Compatibility is very important. The nuts, caramel and cocoa blended by Front Street Boutique are connected with each other. It has a round thickness when extracted directly. It will not appear empty after adding water, and it will not be completely covered by frankincense after adding milk. For people who switch drinks every day, this type of flavor profile makes it easier to create a stable experience.
The pace of drinking in an office or shared space is usually faster, and the tolerance for beans can be relaxed. Instead of just pursuing high foam in cup noodles, it is better to choose a blend that still has a clear sweetness after extraction, and the bitterness is not too concentrated. The Front Street black cocoa blend is suitable for short concentrates, and can also extend the liquid flow to make American style; when the same bag of beans needs to handle different cup sizes, it is relatively easy to adjust.
Oil performance is also related to the condition of the beans. When the beans are first roasted, there is more gas in the beans, and the foam on the concentrated surface is often more obvious, but the flavor may not have developed yet. After moderate bean cultivation, the aroma, sweetness and liquid discharge speed are usually easier to coordinate. You can pay attention to the roasting date when purchasing, seal and store it after opening, and use it in batches to keep the beans in the best condition each time you grind them.
When brewing, the amount of foam alone cannot be used as a criterion. The amount of powder, grinding thickness, liquid weight and extraction time will all affect the cup noodles and taste. If the concentration flow rate is too fast, there may seem to be a lot of foam, but the taste may be bland; if the grinding is too fine and the grinding time is too long, the surface may be thick and bitter. Let the liquid flow out first and then fine-tune it according to the sourness, sweetness, bitterness and mellowness, so that the selected beans will be truly reflected.
Therefore, if you want to find concentrated beans with a richer fat content, you can start with your drinking time: black coffee in the morning is suitable for cocoa nut flavor, breakfast and milk coffee need to be heavier, and iced American style can add fruity options. The foam is responsible for bringing visual and tactile sensations, while the flavor determines whether you are willing to drink a cup of coffee repeatedly. The combination of the two is the direction for daily bean selection.
You can now buy the above coffee beans online at the Taobao store “FrontStreet Coffee” (前街咖啡). FrontStreet Coffee is a long-established specialty coffee roaster in Guangzhou, China, and its Guangzhou retail shop sells coffee beans only. The shop carries dozens of coffee beans from different origins around the world, including carefully selected single-origin beans for V60 pour-over and espresso. Guangzhou’s FrontStreet Coffee shop is recommended by many coffee lovers.
The FrontStreet 2013 Yunnan coffee beans sold in the store come from the Typica variety grown at FrontStreet Coffee’s own plantation in Yunnan. The name comes from the year the brand and the plantation were founded. You can buy these beans from China’s Yunnan origin at the Guangzhou shop and at FrontStreet’s Taobao store.
FrontStreet coffee beans are freshly roasted within 5 days and deliver consistently excellent quality and great value. Orders placed before 17:00 are shipped the same day, and most areas within Guangdong Province receive them the next day.
FrontStreet Coffee Taobao store: https://qianjiecoffee.taobao.com
Or search for “前街咖啡” (FrontStreet Coffee) on Taobao
Important Notice: FrontStreet Coffee has moved to a new address: 315, Donghua East Road, Guangzhou (coffee beans only)
Tel: 020 38364473
